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Study Says Marriage Makes Men Fat and Lazy

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An interesting new study has found that marriage makes men fat. According to the study, getting married can change men's eating habit and their waistlines. The study, conducted by iLeeds Metropolitan University, /ifound that married men are fatter than their single counterparts. This could be because they develop a sweet tooth - with married men treating themselves to more buns, cakes, pastries and fruit pies than unmarred men. The ...

Can Heavy School Bag Cause Back Pain in Children?

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Causes of backache in adults can vary but majority of backaches in growing children is traced to heavy school bags. Backache in children is a common problem now with school bags becoming heavier.

Woman Dies from Rare Infection after Her Pet Dog Licked Her Hand

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A UK grandmother died from a rare infection after she was licked on the hand by her pet dog. 53-year-old Sheena Kavanagh went into septic shock, a serious condition that occurs when a body-wide infection leads to dangerously low blood pressure, suddenly after being licked on the hand by her pet dog. Sources say that because Kavanagh's spleen was removed in 1988, her body was unable to prevent the bacterial infection. Kavanagh reportedly began to feel ...

Kangaroos Win Against Aborigines Fire-Hunt

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For over 2,000 years, Australia's Aboriginal Martu people hunt kangaroos and set small grass fires to catch lizards. A University of Utah researcher found such man-made disruption boosts kangaroo populations - showing how co-evolution helped marsupials and made Aborigines into unintentional conservationists. "We have uncovered a framework that allows us to predict when human subsistence practices might be detrimental to the environment and when they might be beneficial," ...

Pancreatic Cancer Treated With 'Old' Drug in a New Way

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A new use for an old drug that shrinks a particular type of pancreatic cancer tumor and stops it spreading has been found by Cancer Research UK scientists, the research being published in iGut/i. "It's a crucial step forward in developing new treatments for this devastating disease..." - Dr Jennifer Morton, study author The scientists, at the Cancer Research UK Beatson Institute and the University of Glasgow, treated mice with pancreatic cancers ...

Telephone Triage in Primary Care Not Saving Money or Reducing Practice Workload

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Telephone triage system has been introduced in many practices in an effort to deal with the rising demands for general practice appointments. Patients are phoned by a doctor or nurse who either manages the problem on the phone, or agrees with the patient whether and how urgently they need to be seen. A new large study, published in iThe Lancet/i on 4 August 2014 and funded by the UK National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), has investigated the potential ...

Cosmetic Surgery World Capital: US Overtaken by Brazil

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Image-conscious Brazil has overtaken the United States as the world's capital of cosmetic surgery. O Estado de Sao Paulo newspaper on Sunday quoted official figures as saying the South American giant had recorded 1.49 million procedures in 2013, outstripping the United States by more than 40,000. The paper reported that the roaring trade is explained by easier access to credit for cosmetic procedures, allowing patients to pay off the costs of surgery ...

Big Business for Mozart's Salzburg in 'Sound of Music'

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"The Sound of Music" has captured the imagination of movie-goers and musical fans with its catchy tunes and lovable characters amidst the stunning Austrian Alps, for almost 50 years. And this has proven to be big business for the city of Salzburg, where the real-life singing von Trapp family lived and the 1965 Hollywood movie was filmed. While Mozart and classical music remain the city's main tourist attractions, half of all visitors who come here every ...

3-D Structure of A Key Neuroreceptor Studied

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Brain, spinal cord and overall nervous system, are all made of neurons, that form complex networks to communicate with each other through electrical structure that are carried by chemicals. These chemicals bind to structures on the surface of neurons that are called neuroreceptors, opening or closing electrical pathways that allow transmission of the signal from neuron to neuron. One neuroreceptor, called 5HT3-R, is involved in conditions like chemotherapy-induced nausea, anxiety, ...

Morning Sickness Now Linked to Healthier Babies

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Deadly Cancer is Not Just Tumor Suppressor Mutations

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More aggressive forms of cancer are usually linked to mutations in a gene dubbed "the guardian of the genome". But researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have found evidence suggesting that the deleterious health effects of the mutated gene may in large part be due to other genetic abnormalities, at least in squamous cell head and neck cancers. The study, published online August 3 in the journal iNature Genetics/i, shows that ...

Drug Reaction Affects Over 10 Children in Thane

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After an injection dose during early hours of Sunday morning, more than 10 children fell sick in Thane district of Maharashtra. The children admitted for treatment of Pneumonia and other infections started vomiting and complained of cold and suffered difficulties in breathing as soon as they were injected with an evening dose. Chief Medical Officer of Indira Gandhi Memorial Hospital, Nitin Mokashi, said all children were stable now. "15 to ...

Ebola Infected US Doctor 'Seems To be Improving', Says Health Official

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Ebola virus infected US doctor "seems to be improving", said a top US health official on Sunday after the man was flown to the US from Africa for treatment. Kent Brantly, one of two American aid workers infected with the deadly virus as they helped battle an outbreak in West Africa, arrived Saturday at a US air base in Georgia. Clad in a white biosuit, Brantly was seen walking gingerly into Emory University hospital in Atlanta, which has a cutting edge ...

Gaza Children Face Struggle to Conquer War Trauma

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When any child in Gaza is asked to draw something, they usually draw a picture of a house being bombed by a fighter plane. In the strife-torn Palestinian enclave, thousands of children are suffering from the trauma of war but resources to help them are scarce. At a school in the northern town of Jabalia which has been converted into a refuge, specialist teachers hand out paper and coloured crayons to a motley band of shaken up children, asking them to ...

One-third of Brits Reuse Sex Toys Happily

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More than one-third of Brits are happy to recycle their sex toys they once shared with an ex in a new relationship, revealed a new survey. The survey conducted by online sex toy retailer bondara.co.uk showed that 35 per cent admitted that they used intimate items they shared with a former partner with their new love interest, the Daily Star reported. Chris Simms, Bondara's managing director said that the question of whether sex toys shared with an ex ...

Starchy Foods Reduce Red Meat-related Colorectal Cancer Risk

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Eating a type of starch may help cut colorectal cancer risk associated with a high red meat diet, finds study published in iCancer Prevention Research/i. "Red meat and resistant starch have opposite effects on the colorectal cancer-promoting miRNAs, the miR-17-92 cluster," said Karen J. Humphreys, PhD, a research associate at the Flinders Center for Innovation in Cancer at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia. "This finding supports consumption of resistant ...

Scottsdale Zoo's New Animal: the 'Hybrid Goat-Sheep'

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Geep, a hybrid baby goat-sheep named 'Butterfly' for her large black spot, is a newborn with feet and face of a goat, but the wool and tail of a sheep. Butterfly, whose mother was a sheep and whose father was a pygmy goat, was born at My Petting Zoo in Scottsdale, Metro.co.uk reported. Priscilla Motola, the owner of the zoo, said that she and her children went to feed the animals, when her son found what he believed was a newborn goat, even though all ...

Medication can Improve Parenting Skills in ADHD Parents

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Penn State College of Medicine researchers suggest that parenting skills of adults with ADHD improve when their ADHD is treated with medication. At least 25 percent of clinic-referred children with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder have a parent with ADHD. "Parents with ADHD are at increased risk to engage in problematic parenting techniques, including inconsistent disciplinary practices, making ineffectual commands and diminished use of praise," said James ...

Shrinking Dinosaurs Evolved into Agile Flyers

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A new study led by an Adelaide scientist has revealed how massive, ground-dwelling dinosaurs (and) #8722; the theropods (and) #8722; evolved into agile flyers: for over 50 million years, they just kept shrinking. Today, in the prestigious journal iScience/i, the researchers present a detailed family tree of these dinosaurs and their bird descendants which maps out this unlikely transformation. They showed that the branch of theropod dinosaurs which gave rise ...

Ebola Epidemic: Aid Workers say Liberians Dying of Ignorance

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Kendell Kauffeldt scowls in frustration as a jeep pulls up with a new patient on a sweltering morning in the over-stretched Ebola clinic in the Liberian capital Monrovia. "It's dangerous to bring cases in private vehicles like this," he chides as he watches the Toyota disgorge its five passengers at the main gate. "The ministry of health has established protocols. There are hotline numbers that people have to call. And when you call there are ambulances, ...

New Molecular Test Kit can Lead to Better Diagnosis and Treatment of Kidney Cancer

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A joint effort by researchers at Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN), Singapore General Hospital (SGH) and National Cancer Centre Singapore (NCCS) has led to the development of a new molecular test kit that can help doctors better predict and treat kidney cancer. Professor Jackie Y. Ying, IBN Executive Director, said that by combining their expertise in molecular diagnostics and cancer research, they have developed the first genetic ...

Birthday Matters for Wiring-Up the Brain's Vision Center: Study

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Researchers have evidence suggesting that neurons in the developing brains of mice are guided by a simple but elegant birth order rule that allows them to find and form their proper connections. The study took place at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and is published online July 31 in iCell Reports/i. "Nothing about brain wiring is haphazard," said senior author Andrew Huberman, PhD, assistant professor in the Department ...

Support Group Fears Ban on International Surrogacy in Australia Following Abandoned Down's Syndrome Baby

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A surrogacy support group in Australia has expressed fear that the country could ban international surrogacy after an Australian couple reportedly abandoned a baby with his mother in Thailand after finding out that he is suffering from Down's syndrome. The boy was born to Thai woman Pattaramon Chanbua in December and while an Australian couple took his healthy twin sister, they left him behind, according to media reports. "They (the surrogacy agency) ...

Childhood Coxsackie Virus Infection Depletes Cardiac Stem Cells in Adults

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There is epidemiological evidence that links heart disease with type B coxsackie virus (CVB) infection. And research published on July 31st in iPLOS Pathogens/i now suggests a mechanism by which early infection impairs the heart's ability to tolerate stress at later stages of life. CVB infection is very common and affects mostly children. The symptoms range widely: over half of the infections are thought to be asymptomatic, the majority of children ...

Nearly 70 Pc of Couples Play Board Games on Their Wedding Night: Poll

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Two-thirds of married couples play board games instead of "hitting the sack" on their wedding night, reveals a new poll. According to the poll by chillisauce.co.uk. on 5,000 adults, only a third of married couples end their big day with post-nuptial nookie while the others would rather fling off their dancing shoes and huddle up in their room to play Scrabble or Cluedo, the Daily Star reported. The poll also revealed that many opt to carry on the party ...

Mezcal Shrugging Off Unwanted Reputation to Become a Global Favorite in Fashionable Bars

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Mexico's smoky-flavored mezcal liquor has quickly come out of its shadows of a drink fit only for destitute drunkards to become a favorite among fashionable bars from Mexico City to Sydney. The booming demand for tequila's less known ancestor may even be too good for the cactus-like plant that's used to make mezcal, maguey, which is now in high demand for a variety of products. In the southern state of Oaxaca, mezcal's heartland, producers still use ...

Common Medications Adversely Impair Older Adults' Cognitive as Well as Physical Functioning

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A class of medications previously linked to cognitive impairment in older adults appears to negatively affect their physical functioning. This is according to investigators from the Regenstrief Institute, the Indiana University Center for Aging Research, the University of East Anglia and several other United Kingdom institutions. In a systemic review of more than a decade of studies on the effects of drugs with anticholinergic properties, they report ...

Protein Plays Crucial Role in Metabolic Response to High-Fat Diet

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Researchers have found that the activity of a protein called PPAR (and) #947; in pro-opiomelanocortin (POMC) neurons was crucial in regulating metabolic response to high fat diet, a new study published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation reveals. Sabrina Diano and colleagues at Yale University School of Medicine found that mice lacking PPAR (and) #947; specifically in POMC neurons gained less weight, were more active, and had improved glucose metabolism when fed a high-fat ...

Infants Under Two Years of Age More Likely to Die During Commercial Flights Compared to Other Children

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Infants under two years of age have a greater risk of death on a commercial airline flight compared to other children, a new study conducted by researchers at University Hospitals Rainbow Babies (and) Children's Hospital (UH Rainbow) reveals. The study was conducted in partnership with MedAire to characterize the rare event of an in-flight pediatric fatality onboard commercial airline flights worldwide. Through a detailed analysis of more than 7,000 reported medical ...

Modern Society Emerged as Testosterone Levels Fell in Modern Humans

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Researchers have linked lowering of testosterone levels, almost 150,000 years after the first modern humans appeared, with rise in traits that formed the basis of the beginning of modern society, according to a new study published in the journal Current Anthropology. "The modern human behaviors of technological innovation, making art and rapid cultural exchange probably came at the same time that we developed a more cooperative temperament," said lead author Robert ...

UK Border Staff Not Ready for Ebola Outbreak: Union Leader

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British border staff are not ready to deal with possible Ebola cases arriving in the country and there are no containment facilities for suspected victims, reveals a union leader. Fears that the outbreak of the virus in west Africa could spread to other continents have grown in recent days, putting border staff across Europe and Asia on high alert. Lucy Moreton, general secretary of the union that represents border forces in Britain, said that her members ...

French Ballet Stars Offer Hope and Moral Support to Fukushima Dancers

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From the renowned Paris Opera, a group of French ballet stars donned tutus and tights in the shadow of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant and twirled their way into the hearts of local students. About ten dancers held classes at the weekend, their second visit to the region since the 2011 disaster. The troupe gave dozens of students advice on their technique and offered moral support as the youngsters try to return to a normal life after the worst ...

Study Finds Gut Bacteria Play Crucial Role in Keeping Intestinal Lining Intact

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Gut bacteria that aid in digestion of food are vital in keeping the intestinal lining intact, a new study conducted by researchers at Yeshiva University's Albert Einstein College of Medicine and published in the journal Immunity reveals. The research involved the intestinal microbiome, which contains some 100 trillion bacteria. The role of these microorganisms in promoting or preventing disease is a major emerging field of study. Einstein scientists found that absorption ...

Sierra Leone Declares State of Emergency Due to Deadly Ebola Epidemic

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Ernest Bai Koroma, Sierra Leone leader declared a state of emergency and cancelled a planned trip to the US-Africa summit as the country struggled to contain the deadly Ebola epidemic. "Extraordinary challenges require extraordinary measures. The Ebola virus disease poses an extraordinary challenge to our nation," he said in a televised address to the nation. "Consequently... I hereby proclaim a state of public emergency to enable us to take a more ...

Australia Urged to Come Clean on Asylum-Seeker Camps

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Human rights commissioner of Australia said that the government must come clean about conditions at offshore asylum-seeker camps after an inquiry heard of an alleged cover-up of mental health problems. The facilities have been under the spotlight in recent weeks following reports that up to a dozen mothers had attempted suicide at a detention centre on Christmas Island, an Australian territory in the Indian Ocean. The women did so under the belief that ...

LGBT Couples Face Additional Psychological and Legal Problems With Assisted Reproduction Compared to Heterosexual Peers

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While advances in assisted reproduction may offer similar opportunities and problems for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals compared to their heterosexual peers, they also have to face additional physiological and legal problems in their quest to become parents. A comprehensive review of the most recent advances in assisted reproduction options is presented in the article LGBT Assisted Reproduction: Current Practice and Future Possibilities, published ...

'Polo' a Rich Man's Game in China

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Peng Zhichun gallops towards goal on a Chinese polo field gripping his mallet, one of a growing number of the country's wealthy elite discovering the joys of the saddle and the whip. "New clubs are opening, people are more into equestrian sports, into polo, there are more international players coming, so it's growing really fast," the young man, dressed in an expensive leather helmet, boots and white trousers, said after dismounting. Peng, who was taking ...

Quality of Health Lower in Families With a Jailed Member

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The risk of poor health quality was 16 percent higher among families in which a member was incarcerated, compared to those who do not have a family member in jail, a new study reveals, suggesting that the prison system may be playing a role in the physical and mental health difficulties in some families. "These people were children when this happened, and it was a significant disruptive event," said Annie Gjelsvik, assistant professor of epidemiology in the Brown ...

Decrease in CO2 Levels Lead to Formation of Antarctic Ice Sheet: Study

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Massive rearrangements of Earth's continents including decreased CO2 levels caused the abrupt formation of the Antarctic ice sheet, demonstrates a new research. The researchers from University of New Hampshire has shown that the most likely explanation for the initiation of Antarctic glaciation during a major climate shift 34 million years ago. Matthew Huber of the UNH Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space and department of Earth said ...

58 Per Cent of Women Admit to Faking Orgasms at Least Once With Their Partners

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Three in five women taking part in a survey admitted to have faked an orgasm at least once during their relationship while more than 93 percent of those admitted to have done it more than once. According to the survey by adult firm Anne Summers, only one in ten men have faked it, with 40 per cent saying they did it to avoid hurting their partner's feelings or because they're too tired to do the job. The survey also found that although less men do it, ...

Family Tree Sheds New Light on How Massive Dinosaurs Became Agile Flying Birds

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Researchers at University of Southampton have come up with a detailed family tree that shows how massive, ground-dwelling dinosaurs shrunk over a period of 50 million years to evolve into agile flying birds. "These bird ancestors also evolved new adaptations, such as feathers, wishbones and wings, four times faster than other dinosaurs," says co-author Darren Naish, Vertebrate Palaeontologist at the University of Southampton. "Birds evolved through a ...

Kyoto Topples Bangkok to Become the 'World's Best City'

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A survey carried out by Travel + Leisure Magazine has declared Kyoto as the 'World's Best City', replacing Thai capital Bangkok which reportedly lost its place in this year's top 10 due to its political troubles, the CNN reported. Despite repeat appearances in the number one spot, Thailand's capital was voted out by the readers as the city was placed under curfew earlier this year during a military coup. While Kyoto which is famous for its ancient temples ...

Cosmetic Eyelid Surgery can Cure Migraines

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A cosmetic eyelid surgery technique has been found to be effective in curing migraine, a new study reveals. A team of plastic and reconstructive surgeons have reported a high success rate using a method to screen and select patients for a specific surgical migraine treatment technique and that more than 90 percent of the patients who underwent this surgery to decompress the nerves that trigger migraines experienced relief and also got a bonus cosmetic eyelid surgery. ...

Ingredient from Chestnut Tree Found to be Safe for Dengue Fever Patients

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In a finding that could lead to development of new therapies for dengue fever, researchers have found that an ingredient called Celgosivir, which is present in the seeds of the Moreton Bay Chestnut tree, is safe among people infected with the dengue virus. Researchers from Singapore General Hospital (SGH) and Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School (Duke-NUS) studied the participants for the study for five days, during which time they received either the placebo or Celgosivir. ...

Cellular Survival Response Regulated by HSF1 Recruits Surrounding Normal Cells into Supporting Growth and Metastasis of Tumors

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Researchers at Whitehead Institute have found that the cellular survival response regulated by Heat-Shock Factor 1 (HSF1) also induces neighboring cells into supporting the malignant progression and metastasis of cancer cells, a new study published in the journal Cell reveals. Over the past several years, researchers in the lab of Whitehead Member Susan Lindquist have been investigating the role the transcription factor HSF1 plays in supporting malignancy. In normal ...

Experimental Vaccine Found to be 100 Percent Effective in Treating C. Difficile in Animal Models

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Results of a new study published in the journal Infection and Immunity reveal that an experimental vaccine used in animal models against the highly infectious and virulent bacterium, Clostridium difficile, has been found to be 100 percent effective. In the study, the vaccine protected the mice and non-human primates against the purified toxins produced by iC. difficile/i, as well as from an orogastric spore infection, a laboratory model that mimics the human ...

Doctor Who Saved Over 100 Lives Before Succumbing to Ebola Virus Hailed as a Hero in Sierra Leone

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A Sierra Leone doctor who succumbed to the Ebola virus after saving the lives of more than 100 patients has been hailed as a 'national hero' in the country. Umar Khan, 43, the west African nation's sole virologist, was at the forefront of his country's fight against the epidemic, which has seen more than 700 deaths in Sierra Leone and its west African neighbours. He was laid to rest in the eastern town of Kenema, where he had spent much of his working ...

Damage to Tissue Following Traumatic Brain Injury can be Limited Through Vacuum Pressure

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A new study published in the journal Neurosurgery suggests that the damage to brain tissue following a traumatic brain injury (TBI) can be limited through controlled application of vacuum pressure. The journal is published by Lippincott Williams (and) Wilkins/a, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health/a. "Mechanical tissue resuscitation"-consisting of vacuum pressure applied over the injured area of the brain-shows promise as a safe and effective treatment ...